lJtM ;1 , ;' r'1 { R H= --..-. ^ > .<>l5 ''(. I ::.*: : ä :it; :: F r ..."..........<.'6 ' 1" . .... ".. "'" ., :: " ';;1 , i." ,,Ji!' l'L . .. . , l E ' ti> >: :; J41li ...ill. ......... .... .!. \, ,- ;:: LJi,J ,4 THE NEW YORKER M .' .., :- ,#"' ." ,>01 ...^>>>:.j ^) :;-:-- '\::':= :::':::':::::':::.'::::. . , \. :::::::::::; :;..:::r:::":: ;;.. .. 1:;:::: ! .. . : :: - ':::11 jb::. '.' :\t;. .. ... ::: ::::: : : - /t :::" ;.#....#;flr \;. ::<=:::: :. --: ..t ! .k v:::.::":: J",: ,J. .. J . "' I " ... w.::: .... d:: ;, '.::: J N';?-i !. ..:j ;. : 15 ...:-:..: "^""""'"", :... l 't\ Ii w ;J;. ! t.It1 i3Ñ w :"<<:,: :::=* ;;:=':::: .... ,:)<." ^ .'. .,roo;.- ./ .:t (eN ow) don)t make 111e meet everyone in Southan1pton. f " keys that may be inserted in them. Dur- ing this time not even the three check- ing clerks, the two bookkeepers, or the ten cellar boys who work regularly in the department have any more chance of getting in than Mr . Volstead. The cellars are cork-insulated, and air-conditioned, of course. One room, in which are stored thirty-six kinds of beers and mineral waters, and the main wine room, which is eighty by fifty and con tains two hundred and forty kinds of still wines, cognacs, rums, whiskeys, etc., and thirty-nine kinds of apéritifs, bitters, and cordials, are kept between 60 and 65 degrees. The case-goods room, principally for champagne, is somewhat cooler. There are four re- frigerator bins where wines are chilled for serving. In the main room is a wire cage for the most valuable stock, bond- ed whiskeys and vintage wines. Only two keys to this. Mr. Holland has them both. There are thermometers almost . . everywhere you look, and in the aisles are heavy rubber mats, to prevent breakage when bottles are dropped. The floor is red tile, and the wine bins don't rest directly on it. The cellars were evolved out of what was original- ly an enclosed fifth-story court, the floor of which wasn't made to stand much weight, so the bins hang a few inches above the fifth floor from steel beams that take off from the frame- work of the building at the sixth floor. This makes the place vibration-proof, and they think this is probably a good thing, although nobody knows whether the trains underneath would disturb the wines or not. The whole hotel itself is insulated against vibration, of course. Down in another part of the hotel, they've a machine for breaking empty liquor bottles, in conformance with some kind of ruling. It can break thirty- five a minute. It's a sort of grinder which reduces the bottles to pieces about the size of a twenty-carat dia- mond, feeding the remains into canvas bags. Whites, greens, and browns are kept separate, and they're all sold to a glassblower. Skeptic W E hear that Mr. Edward FiIene, the Boston merchant prince, got quite a shock the other day. It seems he likes to walk through the toy de- partment of his store, and not infre- quently he gives a toy to some little child that takes his fancy. One after- noon he presented a handsome doll to a little girl with whom he had struck up a conversation, and waited, beam- ing, to see what she would say. The child's mother waited, too. "What are you going to say to the gentleman?" she urged. The dear looked at Mr. Filene firmly. "Charge it," she said.